http://www.whitesmoke.com/punctuation-apostrophe.html. What is an Apostrophe? An apostrophe is a punctuation mark that looks like this: â (sort of half of a quote) According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word apostrophe comes from the Greek apostrophes, meaning âturning awayâ (to one in particular).
APA stands for the American Psychological Association, which is an organization that compiled a set of style rules for academic writing. To find out more information on how it started, try this website:
Report Abuse. APA stands for American Psychological Association, I believe. Since psychologists do tons of research, the APA adopted standards years ago for the reporting of research data and papers. As for format, just google APA formatting and search the sites brought up. Here's one: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resour...